Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie).
Once again, Flagg’s humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride … her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery.

Among the colorful cast of characters are:

• Sookie, of Selma, Alabama, Dena’s exuberant college roommate, who is everything that Dena is not; she is thrilled by Dena’s success and will do everything short of signing autographs for her; Sookie’s a mom, a wife, and a Kappa forever
• Dena’s cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner, of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal, talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise
• Neighbor Dorothy, whose spirit hovers over them all through the radio show that she broadcast from her home in the 1940s
• Sidney Capello, pioneer of modern sleaze journalism and privateer of privacy, and Ira Wallace, his partner in tabloid television
• Several doctors, all of them taken with — and almost taken by — Dena
• There are others, captivated by a woman who tries to go home again, not knowing where home or love lie.

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